A poem by Carvens Lissaint and Cynthia Ceez Keteku in memory of Matthew Sheppard and Rashawn Brazzell. Performed at Brave New Voices in Chicago by Urban Word 2009 Team.
Spence, Gerry L. "Easy in the Harness: The Tyranny of Freedom." From Freedom to Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America. N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1993. 51-63. Print. FYI: Gerry Spence Website and More
Delivered at an Anti-Slavery Celebration, at Framingham, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1854, after the conviction in Boston of fugitive slave Anthony Burns
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Switch (Urban Word 2009 Team)A poem by Carvens Lissaint and Cynthia Ceez Keteku in memory of Matthew Sheppard and Rashawn Brazzell. Performed at Brave New Voices in Chicago by Urban Word 2009 Team.
Library Guide for Our Course
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//Eyes on the Prize//, from PBS
Spence, Gerry L. "Easy in the Harness: The Tyranny of Freedom." From Freedom to Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America. N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1993. 51-63. Print.
FYI: Gerry Spence Website and More
http://www.gerryspence.com/
http://books.google.com/books/about/From_freedom_to_slavery.html?id=5F136crERzQC
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail":
PBS: Africans in America, Part 3
PBS: Africans in America, Part 4
Charters of Freedom
A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln
"Civil Disobedience," by Henry David Thoreau
John Brown and the Raid on Harpers Ferry
"A Plea for Captain John Brown," by Henry David Thoreau
Slavery in Massachusetts,
by Henry David Thoreau
Delivered at an Anti-Slavery Celebration, at Framingham, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1854, after the conviction in Boston of fugitive slave Anthony Burns
Believe it or not:
"The One Drop Rule"
Link to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" (alternate version)
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Text of MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech:
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Child's song - Murray McLauchlan
Three Versions of Big Mama Thornton's "Ball and Chain"
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Janis Joplin (live at Monterey, 1967)
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Janis Joplin (live at Woodstock, 1969)
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